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Before he blew our minds with the wildly inventive films like: Pan's Labyrinth, Devil's Backbone and Crimson Peak and busted every block with films like: Blade 2, Hellboy and Pacific Rim, the master of monsters Guillermo Del Toro debuted on the scene with the 1993 film; Cronos.

Jesus Gris is a groovy grampa that owns an antique shop that he runs in a seemingly carefree existence with his wife and granddaughter. However, one day a mysterious statue reveals a strange golden, clockwork object known as the Cronos device.

After a series of encounters with a man named Angel - Jesus begins to suspect that the Cronos is far more than it seems. Ever since lodging its stinger in to the old man's hand he seems younger, more vital and happier. But with a sinister urge to drink blood.

As Angel's employer relentlessly pursues the Cronos device, Jesus discovers bit by bit that his humanity is slipping away. The device that seemed like a Godsend is now a curse that will transform his very being.

Also, Wes and Lydia read you a creepy tale of the untoward with Lydia's new book Pray Lied Eve 2!

Hop! Don't walk! It's time for episode 92 of the Dead Air Podcast where Wes and Lydia talk about the 2013 film, Rigor Mortis.

A famous actor with a tragic family life can no longer bare the crippling depression he faces every day and opts to end it all. But as his life drains from his hanging body he enters a world of colourful characters, twin spirits and the legendary Jangshi, aka the hopping vampire of Chinese myth.

On today's episode of Dead Air, Wes and Lydia look through the lens at Ab-Normal Beauty.

Jin is a moderately successful photographer who's raw natural talent has caught the eye of many but left her unsatisfied. One fateful day sees a horrific car-crash occur on one of her days out taking photos and if compelled from some unknown force Jin takes several photos of a dead body. This simple act sets off an passion and excitement she's never known and as her obsession with death slowly overtakes her life there is little the people in her life can do to understand or sate these urges. Can Jin reconcile her dark past and find peace in life once again, or shall this new interest reach its inevitable end with murder? Also, her bizarre new habits have gotten some very unwanted notice from a mysterious stranger.

Be careful what you "click" for! Pop in your floppies and log on to episode 90 of the Dead Air Podcast! Wes and Lydia enter the forbidden room with 2001's J-horror classic; Pulse.

Two stories taking place in Japan simultaneously depict an odd set of occurrences where a member of a group of friends kills himself for no reason. Stranger still there is evidence of people logging on to this new-fangled thing called the internet that reveals a strange feed of various people looking depressed and erratic on webcams.

Soon it becomes obvious that the once bustling streets of Japan are becoming vacant and in the place of people there are only ashy black stains. The two tales converge when Michi and Ryo appear to be the only two people left in Japan and maybe even, the world!

Let's get soaking wet! On today's episode of the Dead Air Podcast Wes and Lydia immerse themselves in the 2002 film; Dark Water.

Yoshimi is a single mother going through a nasty divorce where she is forced to face off against her unscrupulous ex-husband over the custody of their young daughter, Iku.

Between custody hearings, finding a new job and starting Iku at a new kindergarten, it's clear that Yoshimi has enough on her plate, not to mention she's just rented a new apartment.

After her and Iku settle in problems arise. Beyond just the intense humidity, the water tastes funny and occasionally has hair in it! Not to mention there is an increasingly expanding leak in her bedroom ceiling.

Stranger still amidst one of her daughters uncharacteristic disappearances, Iku seems to have acquired a strange red bag that Yoshimi cannot seem to get rid of. With the building staff completely unwilling to help and increasingly strange events occurring at the property, Yoshimi takes matters in to her own hands and uncovers a horrific story of negligence, innocence and loneliness.

Also, Wes talks all about the master of the wet willies; Hideo Nakata as well as the J-horror boom of the early 2000's. Lydia gets real and talks about the disturbing case of Elisa Lam.

We're back and better than ever! It's time to start the New Year right, with the very first episode of Dead Air of 2017! This time we talk about the 1968 fan requested film; Spider Baby.

Bruno is the caretaker of a trio of siblings that have an extremely rare disease called; Merrye Syndrome. Upon puberty a person suffering from this syndrome begins to regress mentally until they became feral cannibals. A little murder and mayhem brings notice that they will soon be visited by distant family members with an accompanying lawyer to discuss the families substantial estate.

Bruno and the family are on their best behavior but a house full of strangers with an agenda spells death, disaster and destruction, for this deranged, dysfunctional domain.

Woo Woo! All aboard the Dead Air Podcast! For our last episode of 2016. We're ringing in the new year with the 1980 slasher; Terror Train.

A group of college grade med students are planning on celebrating New Years Eve in style as they board a private train. Destination Boozeville with stops over in Sexland and Drugstopia. Little do they know their collective pasts are coming back in a big bad way.

As the party derails in to a bloodbath it's a nonstop rush on the midnight express where your life is the only ticket that's about to get punched.

Do you hear what I hear? A pod, a pod, casting in your ears it will bring you loads of bloody cheer!

On today's episode of the Dead Air Podcast we finally take a look at the grandfather of all slashers, the 1974 film; Black Christmas.

Jess and her sorority sisters are packing up and getting ready to head home for the holidays and not even a series of strange vulgar phone calls from a man named "Billy" can spoil their revelry. However, in this picturesque house a creature was stirring and the morning reveals one of the sorority sisters, Clare, has gone missing. Her father, boyfriend and closest friends can't find any trace of her and with news of the disappearance of another local girl the police are just as baffled. Everyone's a suspect as bodies pile up. Black Christmas gave the world the first true slasher. It's a story of murder, mayhem and a tortured killer that's closer than anyone could imagine.

On today's episode of the Dead Air Podcast, Wes and Lyida head up to Eel Marsh house in search of peat bog bodies and instead find the 2012 film; The Woman In Black.

Arthur is a mild mannered lawyer and although his life has seen some significant personal tragedy his firm is giving him an ultimatum: close down the Drablow estate, or find a new job.

A long trip to the isolated village of Crythin Gifford brings him to the fabled Eel Marsh house but before too long a series of strange events see the local's children dying in uncanny accidents that are more than they appear.

Soon, Aruthur begins to discover the tragic history behind the old Eel Marsh house that spawned an undying hated that grips this town in fear.

Another fan request gets Wes and Lydia Lynched! Episode 84 brings you the 1977 headtrip; Eraserhead.

Henry's romantic entanglement with Mary lands him on a straight path to fatherhood but his world seemingly is falling apart around him with an ominous dark moon in the sky, mounds of soil everywhere he goes - killer sperm and dancing ladies in the radiator! All of this would be bad enough but he also has to contend with a baby that looks like a strange creature with an incessant cry.

The surrealist film that launched David Lynch's career that has had people talking for decades will be dissected worse than an alien fetus by two people barely qualified to use scissors!